Programming for the Beginner

A guide to programming for the beginner. 36 sections each consisting of a brief description of a new programming concept plus a JavaScript program that illustrates it. Section titles include: Comments Hello World Debugging Variables String Concatenation Variable Names Variable Names and Capitalization Debugging with Breakpoints and Watches Data Types Operators and Expressions DOM Elements If and Else Statements If-Else Chains While Loops For Loops Arrays Adding and Removing Array Items Breaking Out of a Loop Hashtables Declaring and Calling a Function Function Calls with Arguments Functions with Return Values Nested Function Calls Functions and Abstraction User Input and User Interfaces HTML User Interfaces More User Interfaces Data Structures Classes and Objects Class Prototypes and Methods Objects as Function Arguments Graphics Timers Animation Keyboard Input Mouse Input and A Simple Game.